To think fussy people ordering coffee should always be in a separate queue

[HarveysPJs]

Drives me mad. I just want to buy a sandwich, and in front of me is someone ordering 4 coffees with very exacting requirements.

I’ve never had squash with sparkling water 😱

I’m more of a tea person but how much is a coffee nowadays, £3? I think for that much you should be able to have your coffee the way you want it.

I just want to buy a sandwich, and in front of me is someone ordering 4 coffees

Drives me mad, people in front of me in the queue in a coffee shop, ordering sandwiches when I just want to buy a coffee.

@DynamoKev

All shops and similar should a “I just want to get on with” queue and a “I have all day to waste asking drippy questions, passing the time of day, demanding precise twitters in my order” queue

Yes, and a queue called Even though I knew I'd have to pay for my shopping, I won't start fumbling in my bag for my purse until the cashier tells me the total. And my purse is right at the bottom of my huge handbag. And I've got 10 money-off coupons you'll need to scan

I think the reason any coffee shop offers so much choice is to hide that fact that their coffee is not great quality. As my name suggests, I don't add anything to my coffee so it has to be good and Starbucks/Costa etc just don't meet my minimum taste requirement. My experience of cafes in places like NT is that they have the coffee order place right next to the till, so if you're queuing behind a complicated coffee order and you can see the till is free then it's perfectly acceptable to skip past them and pay for your stuff. Was it a different setup where you were OP?

YABU

@MuserOwl

My Dad in starbucks ten years ago

"I want a cup of coffee and no questions "

Well said that man! He should add his name as something like 'Xavier, with two r's and three v's', spelt with a z' Maybe there should also be a queue for those who want a black coffee. Full stop.

@MuserOwl

My Dad in starbucks ten years ago

"I want a cup of coffee and no questions "

I must have a special look cos I can go order a black coffee in most places and rarely get any questions, but dh is there for hours, so I will coach him in this!

DD once took down a hipster barista in Camden... by cutting him off in his long long list of milk options with "just milk, from a cow"

As an aside has anyone else noticed the assumption that if there is a black and a white coffee then it's the man having the black coffee and the woman having the white?? This happens so often to us it surely cannot be a coincidence!!

@mayflowerapplepie

Ha you would all hate living in Australia. I had a little laugh at myself when I heard myself ordering a double shot soy flat white and a grande skinny latte extra hot It’s just normal here. I am now a coffee snob and I don’t care. It is excellent coffee. Being a barista is a fairly respected job as far as they go and no one round here would put up with any shit

Same in the US, nobody orders a standard barista drink. However in most places you can also just get “a coffee” which is filter, and you add your own milk.

Agree, cant stand poncey coffee

@ememem84

I went to local coffee shop the other day as it was my turn at work to buy nice coffee.

I ordered:
flat white soya milk
Hazelnut soya latte
Skinny cappuccino
Double shot skinny cappuccino
Gingerbread oat milk hot chocolate.

I felt like a right wazzock.

You need to implement the same rules my dad did when he took us to the pub for pop and crisps (usually on holiday) when I was a child.

Four of us, all had to have the same drink and same type of crisps so he could say '4 cokes and 4 bags of salt and vinegar'.

He wasn't going to go with a list of 2 cokes, one lemonade, one dandelion and burdock, 2 cheese and onion, one smokey bacon and one plain. Chances are he'd forget or get mixed up anyway.

@MissMarplesGlove

I just want to buy a sandwich, and in front of me is someone ordering 4 coffees

Drives me mad, people in front of me in the queue in a coffee shop, ordering sandwiches when I just want to buy a coffee.

That’s true, in a deli type place watching other people be exacting about their butter , mayo, wrap, white or brown baguette, etc is annoying.

I was once in the Sainsbury's cafe in between work appointments and wanted to order a bog standard cup of tea. I got to the counter at the same time as a man in a suit and indicated he could go first. It then turned out he was some kind of regional Sainsbury's manager who went on to order like 8 different breakfasts on his account for staff who were arriving for a meeting and 8 seperate drinks including ringing people who hadn't arrived yet to check what they wanted and having a conversation with the kitchen staff about whether they had enough avocado for the avocado smash. SURELY if you worked there and were about to put that massive fuck off order in you would have said 'No no, you go first'.

I ordered my one normal tea really, really loudly.

If you choose to go to coffee shops (and they are allowed to offer options to their customers) you can't complain about people choosing what they want.
Go and buy your boring sandwich at tesco and use the self service till!

As an aside has anyone else noticed the assumption that if there is a black and a white coffee then it's the man having the black coffee and the woman having the white?? This happens so often to us it surely cannot be a coincidence!!

Same in a pub - ordering a pint of bitter and a diet Coke/J2O/lemonade etc. the pint of bitter is always handed to the bloke. Er, nope, that'll be mine please.

My husband likes quiche enough to order it in a restaurant sometimes - the quiche nearly always gets put in my place, when my order is the rare steak which my husband wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing, or who on earth they are can – for only $2.95 – get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino."

I don't like coffee. I like hot milk with a shot of caramel/hazelnut or salted caramel - what would i order? I used to get them from a cart at the train station and they were called Milk steamers - very tasty

I can't believe the way the votes have gone on this. You are 100% reasonable. It's true there are some performance coffee drinkers but I blame the cafes more for not having two separate queues or at least someone on the till who can ask people not buying coffee to come forward.

SecretSpAD "Then questioned how they are going to make it, dithered over whether to have semi, full or skimmed milk or oat milk, dithered more over whether he wants a syrup, toppings etc...."

He is concerned about the origin of beans and the grind and so on (although it's more the roast that is at issue) and then he spoils it with syrup? .

I must admit I had the opposite problem in a previous local where the barista mocked anyone who had milk with their coffee and refused to serve anything but the bog-standard 'house roast' to anyone not ordering an espresso.

Not so much a separate queue because everyone likes their coffee different and it is a coffee shop... but a self scan till for a prepacked sandwich and bottled drink would be helpful.

@KatherineJaneway

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing, or who on earth they are can – for only $2.95 – get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino."

And they also serve the purpose of keeping the fussy and faffy from cluttering up the genuinely good quality coffee shops, so that I don't have to stand in a massive queue.

@HarveysPJs

Funny how tea doesn’t cause all these issues and manages to quickly cater for all dietary needs when ordered... *@RizzleDrizzle*

I see you've never encountered my dad trying to order a cup of tea. It's got to be plain green tea, and when they inevitably don't have that it's a long conversation about what else they have, and then detailed instructions about how weak it has to be (at this point in his anti-caffeine crusade it's pretty much homeopathic). You can see them losing the will to live. At least the complicated coffee people are speaking a language the baristas understand.

@HarveysPJs

Funny how tea doesn’t cause all these issues and manages to quickly cater for all dietary needs when ordered... *@RizzleDrizzle*

Oh yes... everyone should drink tea to please you now🙄 Make your sandwich at home instead if you don’t like waiting in a queue on a coffee shop.

I always think this with cocktails in a bar too when you are queuing at the bar (obviously not at the moment) and you just want a beer or juice or whatever and the person in front orders 3 incredible intricate cocktails that take half an hour to make! I always think they should have a separate queue!

Not that any of that matters with COVID now!

this will be my daughter in a few years time! She already wants her squash made with a mix of slightly more blackcurrant, a bit of orange - and sparkling water.

Oh dear there's no hope. Just send her in an hour before you actually want your drink 😆

@HarveysPJs

Funny how tea doesn’t cause all these issues and manages to quickly cater for all dietary needs when ordered... *@RizzleDrizzle*

It does though, lactose until ant people still need oat/coconut/soya milk do you reallly think people with lactose allergies go oh I’m only allergic to lactose when it’s in coffee?

I suspect people who are allergic to caffeine and lactose when their ordering tea will order a rooibos or Fruit or green tea and you’ll be just as mocking, with your “just order a tea, with milk... what’s all this fancy pants rooibos green tea what’s that”

Theres actually more types of tea In fact a national trust property is exactly the type of place that’s likely to have
English breakfast
Lapsang
Oolong
Lady gray
Earl gray
Green
White
Matcha
Chai
Rooiboos
Strawberry and blackberry tea
Lemon
Ginger and ginsing the list of variation people might be ordering for teas is actually longer than the choices you get for coffee

And absolutely there are people who choose to order coffees with oat/soya/coconut because they just like the taste, I order my lady gray with milk cos I like it with milk rather than the more traditional lemon, but you DON’T Know, nor is it any of your business why their ordering the coffee the way they want it.

You’ve just made up your mind and your trying to go look at them the arse holes when actually your looking like a self righteous A HOLE YOURSELF